SY110 (Spring 2026)

January 2026

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
			1	2	3	4
5	6 CLASS 0 COURSE OVERVIEW MON SCHEDULE SEMESTER START	7	8 COMP DAY (NO CLASS)	9 CLASS 1 Intro to the Cyberspace Domain	10	11
12 CLASS 2 File Systems and Hierarchies	13 CLASS 3 Computer Architecture LAB 1 Computer Architecture	14	15 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	16 CLASS 4 Operating System Shells and Permissions	17	18
19 HOLIDAY BIRTHDAY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (NO CLASSES)	20 CLASS 5 Numeral Systems in Computing	21	22 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	23 CLASS 6 Intro to the World-Wide-Web and HTML	24	25
26 SNOW DAY	27 LAB 2 Linux and Windows Operating Systems	28	29 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	30 CLASS 7 Intro to the Web: JavaScript	31

February 2026

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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2 CLASS 7 Intro the Web: JavaScript (Cont.)	3 LAB 3 Build a Website 6-Week Exam Cut-Off	4	5 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	6 CLASS 8 Intro to the Web: Client-Side Scripting	7	8
9 CLASS 9 Intro to the Web: Server-Side Scripting	10 EXAM 1 Six Week Exam Exam: 06:45-07:35 (X-Period) Exam Room Assignments LAB 4 Cross-Site Scripting	11	12 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	13 CLASS 10 Intro to Cryptography and Symmetric Encryption	14	15
16 HOLIDAY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY (NO CLASSES)	17 LAB 5 Hashing, Passwords, and Authentication	18	19 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	20 CLASS 11 Asymmetric Encryption	21	22
23 CLASS 12 Digital Signatures and Digital Certificates	24 CLASS 13 Stack: Intro and Application CLASS 14 Stack: Transport	25	26	27 CLASS 15 Stack: Network	28

March 2026

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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2 CLASS 16 Stack: Data Link Lab 3 Websites Due at 2200	3 LAB 6 Network Traffic Analysis	4	5 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	6 CLASS 17 Stack: Physical Layer NO MIDDAY BREAK SCHEDULE Normal 1-4, early 5/6 12-Week Exam Cutoff (Lectures)	7	8
9 SPRING BREAK (NO CLASSES)	10 SPRING BREAK (NO CLASSES)	11 SPRING BREAK (NO CLASSES)	12 SPRING BREAK (NO CLASSES)	13 SPRING BREAK (NO CLASSES)	14	15
16 CLASS 18 Human Factors in Cybersecurity	17 LAB 7 Build a Network 12-Week Exam Cutoff (Labs)	18	19 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	20 CLASS 19 Law, Policy, and Ethics	21	22
23 CLASS 20 Vulnerabilities and Malware Begin Cyber Case Study Research	24 LAB 8 Securing Networks CLASS 21 Network Security Architectures	25	26 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	27 CLASS 22 Passive and Active Reconnaissance	28	29
30 COMP DAY (NO CLASS)	31 EXAM 2 Twelve Week Exam Exam: 06:45-07:35 (X-Period) Exam Room Assignments Lab Period: The Dark Web and the Cyber Supply Chain Location: Volgenau Conference Center (HP513)

April 2026

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1	2 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	3 CLASS 23 Risk Management and Assessments	4	5
6 CLASS 24 Vulnerability Management and Incident Response	7 LAB 9 Cyber Recon	8	9 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	10 CLASS 25 Cyber Threat Intel and Modeling T-Period, Mahan Hall: Cyber Lecture Series (attendance mandatory) Speaker: Dmitri Alperovitch, Former Co-Founder and CTO of Crowdstrike	11	12
13 CLASS 26 Digital Forensics	14 LAB 10 Computer Network Attack	15	16 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	17 CLASS 27 Emerging Cyber Threats: Artificial Intelligence	18	19
20 CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS	21 LAB 11 Computer Network Defense	22	23 SEE TUE SCHEDULE	24 CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS	25	26
27 CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS AND SOF COMPLETION	28 COMP DAY (NO CLASS) LAST DAY OF CLASS	29	30 REVIEW & STUDY DAY

May 2026